Just walking around,An object of curiosity to some,...But you are too preoccupiedBy the secret smudge in the back of your soulTo say much, and wander around,Smiling to yourself and others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as i...t demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking--one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, h...as never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest ... of his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,--who ...had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then, indeed, the cars go by without h...is hearing them. But soon, by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »